Pattern Hacks
If you ever read sewing blogs or follow sewers on social media, you may have heard them talking about pattern hacking, and maybe you wondered what that is or how you do it? Basically a pattern hack is making a change to a printed pattern. It may be as simple as mixing and matching pattern […]
How to Make an Underskirt
As a result of leaving Print me Pretty, I have a large stash of fabric at home. I needed a new slip, so I decided to make one, using fabric from my stash. In some ways, it’s not as good as one made from man-made fibres, but in other ways it’s better. It was […]
Second Free Club Night
We’ve held our first free club night, making a Tumbling Blocks coaster, and now we’re looking forward to our September free club night. This is going to be a bigger project (which we may not finish in one night!), making a skirt. This sort of project doesn’t happen very often! It will be held on […]
Make a girl’s skirt with pockets
If you follow Fabric Fun Craft Club on Instagram, you may remember that I made a little skirt for my granddaughter last summer, using Marnie Makes’ Rainbow design. I wanted a skirt with an elasticated waist at the back, a waistband at the front and pockets – because we all like pockets in our […]
Meet Fifi
Do you make your own clothes? Or wish you could? Either way, you need to check out Tilly and the Buttons. Tilly’s aim in life is to get us all making our own clothes. To that end, she designs simple-to-sew patterns which come with beautifully illustrated instructions. In 2015, she released Fifi, described by […]